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Lest We Forget….

November 11, 2020 by 53weeks

We will remember them…. Leica M9; Summicron 35mm; VSCO Lerouge 6×6 Pinhole Camera; Kodak Portra 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, England, Forget, Germany, Life, Memorial, Poppies, Poppy, Rememberance, Remembrance Day, Soldiers, War, World War

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Auntie Londa….

November 23, 2017 by 53weeks

Auntie Londa and Super Allen came visiting….. (more of him some other time) Leica M9; Summicron 90; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Blogging, England, Family, Food, Friends, Fun, Germany, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Travel, University

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Salford Quays

November 7, 2016 by 53weeks

It’s changed a little bit since my first visit in the 1980s….. Leica M9; Summilux 50; Lightroom  

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1980s, BBC, Culture, Deprevation, England, Family, Food, Industry, Leica, Manchester, Media, Photography, Politics, Regeneration, Restructuring, Rough, Salford, Shopping, Television, The North, Travel, Up North, VSCO

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Week 52 – Mike…

December 20, 2015 by 53weeks

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Dad, Day out, England, Family, Food, Grief, Love, Loyal, Potsdamer Platz, Travel

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Week 47 – Neil…

November 18, 2015 by 53weeks

It didn’t seem a day since we last met….

Categories: Photography • Tags: Air Training Corps, aircraft, England, Food, Leica, Military, Old Friend, Portrait, Prime, RAF, Sanssouci, Scotland, Travel

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Week 44 – Safiya….

October 30, 2015 by 53weeks

Categories: Photography • Tags: Beauty, Culture, England, Food, Friendship, girl, Glamour, Leica, Portrait, Travel

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Week 37 – The Carrolls

June 25, 2015 by 53weeks

…or happy families! Leica M2 Elmar f=5cm 1:2.8 Kodak T-Max 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, England, Family, Food, Friends, Home, Kodak, Leica, Portrait, Sheperd's Pie, Tea, Travel

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Week 2 – Hassan….

February 7, 2014 by 53weeks

It’s always good to get home for a few days, especially when you get to meet up friends you’ve not seen for a long time. Thanks for the lovely evening and of course the excellent food! Fujifilm X-Pro 1 Funjinon 35mm f1.4 Aperture and NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, England, Family, Food, Friend, Hospitality, People, Portrait, religion, Travel

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Week 25 – Brick Lane

August 13, 2013 by 53weeks

We went for a curry down Brick Lane, I think my Jalfrezi days might just be over……! Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Culture, England, Food, Graffiti, London, Out of the ordinary, Politics, Travel, War

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Week 47- St. George

December 16, 2012 by 53weeks

Fancy going out in Berlin of an evening and meeting up the English patron saint St. George!

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Christmas, Dragon, England, Family, History, Life, News, Saint, Travel

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Week 3 – Lytham and St-Anne’s-on-Sea

February 5, 2012 by 53weeks

This was taken whilst we were still in England during a very enjoyable day trip to Lytham St Anne’s. We especially appreciated the excellent fish and chips and the chance to play football on the beach, two things that are a rarity for a family living in continental Europe.

Categories: Photography • Tags: England, Family, Food, Football, Fun, Lytham St Anne's, Photo, Pier, Travel

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Week 32 – Sanssouci Rose

August 17, 2011 by 53weeks

This was shot during a rainy Sunday stroll through Sanssouci….. f/4 1/125 ISO 400 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, England, Expat, Family, Figur, Figure, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Preuss, Preussische Schloesser und Gaaerten, Project, Rose, Rosen, Sanssouci, Seat, Seconds, Sessel, Sigma, Sigma 1.4 30mm, Sitz, Statue, Stunden, Time, Weeks, Wife, Years

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Week 30 – Muffer

August 9, 2011 by 53weeks

This was taken in Rhosneigr (Anglesey) on the last evening of our holiday in Wales. Thanks once again for everything! f/25 1/250 ISO 400 @17mm (Two remotely triggered strobes)

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Anglesey, Aperture, Bank, Beach, Bench, Blende, Chair, Cornwall, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Mother, Muffer, Mutter, Ni, North Wales, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Rhosneigr, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Strand, Tamron, Time, Wales, Weeks, Years

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Week 29 – Coming Home

August 8, 2011 by 53weeks

Some of you might have guessed that the project has not died, moreover everybody is entitled to a bit of a holiday sometime. After driving back through Germany and the Netherlands this was the view that greeted us on the Stena ferry taking us home. There will be more to come over the next few days to catch up. f/16 1/60 ISO 400 @17mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Blighty, Canon, Chair, Children, Deutschland, England, Expat, Family, Fähre, Ferien, Ferry, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Großbritanien, Hoek, Hoek van Holland, Holiday, Holland, Home, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Kinder, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Netherlands, Niederlande, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Sommer, Stena, Stena Ferry, Stunden, Summer, Summer holiday, Tamron, Time, Urlaub, Weeks, Wife, Years, Zu Hause

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Week 28 – Don’t you just love blondes…….

July 18, 2011 by 53weeks

and this one is a very special example…… meet the aptly named Bonny. She is a very obedient, patient and easy going girl, quite prepared to have her pictures taken in the rain sitting next to her favourite treat without complaint. A real low maintenance girl…….. f/4 1/80 ISO 100 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, 1.4 30mm, 30, 30mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Bitch, Blende, blond, Blonde, Bombshell, Bonny, boulette, burger, Canon, Chair, complaint, dog, easy, easy going, England, Expat, Foto, Fotos, Germany, girl, Golden haired retriever, goodie, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Hund, Images, low, low maintenance, maintenance, Minuten, Minutes, obedient, patient, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pin up, Pin_up Girl, Potsdam, Project, Rain, retriever, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, snack, Stunden, Time, treat, Weeks, Years

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Week 27 – The Saale

July 11, 2011 by 53weeks

After a short weekend break in the south of the country, this week’s post is centred around the river Saale. As we have now reached halfway on the photographic journey through the year 2011, this week’s entry is interactive. All those entering the poll (see below) have the chance to become the lucky winner of a once in a lifetime prize. So here goes: The first two were taken directly on the banks of the Saale River in Hirschberg (Thuringia). […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Aussicht, Aussischtsturm, Bach, Bank, Bench, Blende, Border, Burgk, Canon, Castle, Chair, East, England, Expat, Family, Fluß, Foto, Fotos, Gender, Generationen, Generations, Germany, Grenze, Guinness, Guinness Book of Records, Guinness Buch der rekorde, Hirschberg, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Landscape, Landschaft, looks, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Nationalität, Nationality, Ost, Palace, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Poll, Potsdam, Project, Records, Rekord, River, Saale, Schleiz, Schloss, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sex, Sitz, Sommer, Sonne, Stream, Stunden, Summer, Sun, Tamron, Thür, Thüringen, Thinker, Thuringia, Time, Tower, Turm, View, Vote, Watch Tower, Watchtower, Weeks, West, Years

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Week 26 – Kim Wilde and the Siblings

July 4, 2011 by 53weeks

The Economist was recently titled “The man who screwed an entire country” accompanied by a picture of Silvio Berlusconi. In Potsdam it isn’t a single man but more a political morass of people who were on the payroll of the regime before the fall of the wall. One of the latest victims has been the local public services company which hosts the annual music festival in Potsdam. This year’s roll call included Simple Minds, Robin Gibb and Kim Wilde. The […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: "The Economist", 50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Berlusconi, Bicycle, Blende, Canon, Chair, Communism, Economist, Energy, England, Expat, f1.8, Fahrrad, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Geschwister, Great Britain, Humour, Images, Kim Wilde, Kommunismus, Lustgarten, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Morass, Pfaffhausen, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pleasure Garden, Potsdam, Project, public services, Public services company, Robin Gibb, Screw, Seconds, Secret Police, Sessel, Siblings, Sigma, Silvio, Simple Minds, Sitz, Socialism, Sozialismus, Stadtwerke, Stadtwerkefest, Stasi, Stunden, Time, Utilities, Weeks, Years

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Week 25 – Verena and Paris

June 25, 2011 by 53weeks

This week’s picture is a tribute to a great Frenchman, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry both an aviator and a children’s author. Second only to that man Eric in French history….. This was shot with kind permission of Verena under the plaque commemorating Saint-Exupéry in the Panthéon (Paris) during a recent business trip. f/5 1/125 ISO 800 @29mm Verena in the Panthéon (Paris)

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Air show, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Business, busy, Canon, Chair, Colleague, Der kleiner Prinz, England, Expat, Foto, Fotos, France, Frankreich, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Kollege, Le Borget, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Panthéon, Paris, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, The little Prince, Time, trip, Verena, Weeks, Years

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Week 24 – Oma (Hamburg)

June 18, 2011 by 53weeks

This is Oma (Grandma) in the Stadtpark in the beautiful city of Hamburg. She says “the best years were my thirties”, My reply “unfortunately mine are all but gone!” “You’ve still got your forties to come!” That’s all very well but if the thirties were the best years, where do we go from here? They say the old thirties are the new fifties. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! P.S. she’ll be ninety-three this year so she ought to […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 30, 40, alt, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, Canon, Chair, Deutschland, dreizigern, elderly, England, Expat, f1.8, Family, Foto, Fotos, fourties, fouties, Frühling, Germany, Grandma, Grandmother, Great Britain, Grossmutter, Hamburg, HH, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, jung, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Nord, Norddeutschland, Northern Germany, Old, Oma, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Spring, Stunden, Tamron, thirties, Time, vierzigern, Weeks, Years, young

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Week 23 – Rainy Milano

June 13, 2011 by 53weeks

This is Uli, my colleague on a very wet day in Milan. We went from a glorious nearly 30°C in Berlin to a miserable 18°C and rain in Milan. Still I got to see the San Siro from the outside so all in all not bad for a day’s business trip. The first picture (above) is a crop of the second (below), as usual I couldn’t decide so I’m hedging my bets once again. Both (of course) f4 1/1250 ISO […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 30mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Italia, Italien, Italy, Mailand, Milan, Milano, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, San Siro, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Stunden, Time, Uli, Ulrike, Weeks, Years

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Week 22 – Schloss Lindstedt

June 5, 2011 by 53weeks

as above ……… f8 1/50 ISO 800 @50mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, Allee, Aperture, Architecture, Architektur, ASA, Bank, Beauty, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, Castle, Castle Lindstedt, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, ISO, Lindstedt, Manor House, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Palace, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Preussen, Preussische Schlösser, Project, Prussia, Schloss, Schloss LIndstedt, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Years

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Week 18 – The Lady by the Lake

May 9, 2011 by 53weeks

…… on a sunny May afternoon in Neuruppin (1923). f4 1/800 ISO 200 @19mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 1920s, 1923, 50mm, anonym, anonymous, Antique, antiquität, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Brandenburg, Canon, Canon 40D, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Frau, Frühling, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Lady, Landscape, Mai, May, Minutes, Monate, Months, Neuruppin, Old, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sepia, Sessel, Sitz, Spring, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Woman, Years

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Week 13 – Beer Benches to You!

April 4, 2011 by 53weeks

And lots of them! Apparently the official translation is “Ale-Bench” although I’ve never heard of this expression and I find the literal translation of “Bierbank” somehow more pleasing, even if it isn’t correct. Sunday evening and the very last minute, with the inspiration once again coming from elsewhere (the usual source). All rather hurried in every respect as well, sorry for that and I hope you like it anyway. f 8 1/5 ISO 200 -1 ev 26mm  

Categories: Photography • Tags: "Ale-Bench", "Biertischgarnitur", 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Beer, Bench, Berlin, Bier, Bierbank, Bierbänke, Blende, BUGA, Canon, Chair, England, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Years

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Week 7 – The Expatriate

February 20, 2011 by 53weeks

I finally found a bank with someone on it. This is Pete, he’s the gentlest soul you’ll ever meet. f5 1/160 ISO 100 19 mm  

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, Canon, Chair, England, Expat, expatriate, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Monate, Months, Peter, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Years

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Week 5 – Green and Grey

February 7, 2011 by 53weeks

It’s nearly twenty years ago since I first heard this song with a very good friend of mine travelling to his home in a small German town on the Polish border. Being six months into my year abroad at the time, it reminded me very much of my own home in the North West of England. Today I see the song in a slightly different light…. guilty as charged? I don’t really think so, this isn’t the land of gold […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, Bolton, Canon, Chair, England, Expat, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Green and Grey, Hills, Hours, Images, Lyrics, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, New Model Army, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Rain, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Tamron, Valleys, Weeks, Years

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Week 2 Potsdam – “The-Bread-Roll-Run”

January 18, 2011 by 53weeks

I think you may have to get used to a number of these banks being within the boundaries of the city of Potsdam, as well as being taken at the last possible moment during the week. The more observant of you will have noticed that this was taken on a Sunday, hence it was taken on the first day of the new week. This is correct, unless you live in Germany, where the first day of the week is a […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, 52, 53, 8, Aperture, Bank, Barmcake, Bench, Berlin, Bilder, Blende, Bolton, Bread, Canon, Chair, Children, Dallgow, Dirty, DoF, Dreck, England, Expat, f1, f1.8, Familie, Family, Fireworks, Foto, Fotos, Frau, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Jahre, Kids, Kinder, Knaller, Leben, Life, Manchester, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, New Year, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Roll, Scharfentiefe, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Silvester, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Wochen, Years

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Week 1 Dallgow Döberitzer Heide

January 18, 2011 by 53weeks

“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” – David Bailey – In “Face,” (London), Dec 1984. It is with this in mind that we set off on our 53 week photographic journey. There are few things more ordinary than a bank, so in […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, 52, 53, 8, Aperture, Bank, Büffel, Bench, Berlin, Bilder, Bison, Blende, Bolton, Canon, Chair, Children, Dallgow, DoF, England, Expat, f1, f1.8, Familie, Family, Foto, Fotos, Frau, Germany, Great Britain, Horses, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Jahre, Kids, Kinder, Leben, Life, Manchester, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Pferde, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, reindeer, Renntier, Scharfentiefe, Schnee, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Snow, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weather, Weeks, Wetter, Wife, Wild, Wochen, Years

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